Birlasoft storms into $75 billion market by acquiring CRM cloud partner

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Birlasoft, the IT services arm of the CK Birla group and a global Information Technology Services provider present across US, UK, Europe and APAC, has announced the acquisition of EnablePath, a fast growing CRM solutions provider and Salesforce.com Gold Cloud Alliance Partner based in Atlanta, USA.

With this acquisition Birlasoft aims to drive specialized expertise in strategic high-end business consulting, cloud transition, implementation, integration and app exchange services developed on the Salesforce.com platform to provide full-suite of solutions around sales, service, marketing and related cloud environments value chain, in the enterprise and commercial mid-market segments.

This acquisition is a part of larger strategy of Birlasoft to leverage the shift in enterprises from 'build model' to business process led 'consume model' and a focus on 'IT outcome' to 'business outcome' based services enabled by technology disruptions like cloud, analytics and mobility.

While Birlasoft has been serving top Fortune clients in the sales to post sales service value chain around business applications like CRM, SCM, ERP and related solutions around HCM, QA and Analytics, the company formulated the strategy to enable clients with best-of-the-breed new generation technology solutions across business value chain from enquiry to order to cash to customer service. With CRM needing to be integrated in the sales to service value chain, cloud being one of the disruptive technologies and Salesforce.com being the frontrunner as the integration platform, Birlasoft has decided to make first investment in this space.